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Letter "G" » George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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«New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
appear, blasphemies, discussion, established, fancied, fancies, fancying, finally, in jokes, joked, jokes, new, open, open to, opinions, questions, take a joke, the discussion, treason, truths
«The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Christians, deliver, generally, goods, invariably, Jews, Jews as, pay, The Men, value
«No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.»
«Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Christianity, ever, Good Thing, might, tried
«There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.»
«Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
dance music, dancing, desire, expression, horizontal, legalize, legalized, legalizing, music, vertical
«Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.»
«When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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bad, just as, ones, point, point man, rare, really, the point, to the point
«You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty; but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
easily, one of them, rich, sixty, ten, twenty
«It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
beginning, beyond, boated, boating, boats, broken, burned, burned at, burning in, burn in, burn out, burn up, curious, end, feeling, goes, matters, mercifully, pain, peace, powers, sensation, sort, sorted, sorting, sort of, sort out, The Beginning, The End
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